Malaya: The Malayan Union Experiment 1942-1948

British Documents on the End of Empire #B3a

by A.J. Stockwell (Editor)

Drawing on source material from official British archives held at the Public Records office, this three-part volume documents the course of Anglo-Malayan relations from the fall of Singapore in February 1942 to the achievement of Malayan independence in August 1957.

392 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Anthony Stockwell is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London. He was joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (1989-2007) and his publications include British Policy and Malay Politics during the Malayan Union Experiment (1979), Malaya (1995) and Malaysia (2004) in the series, British Documents on End of Empire. A Fellow of the Society since 1990, he was President in 2000-03, Vice-President in 2003-06 and President in 2006-09.

Reviews

[Trevor · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are collected documents, not an ordinary book, and my neutral rating is intended to reflect that.